Thinking of early retirement in 2026? First, find your real financial independence target

Early retirement sounds romantic until you sit down with a calculator. The idea of Financial Independence, or FI, is simple: You build a corpus large enough that your investments generate enough ...
Hackaday

Living In The (LLM) Past

In the early days of AI, a common example program was the hexapawn game. This extremely simplified version of a chess program ...
Campaign Middle East on MSN

The year ahead for horizontal thinking in a vertical world

In 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue defeated Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov at chess. The world panicked about machines replacing human expertise. What happened next? Kasparov pioneered ‘advanced chess ...
AOL

The Problem With New Year’s Resolutions When You Have Kids

Every January, it’s tempting to make big promises to yourself about how you’ll change in the new year. But when you’re a parent, life rarely goes according to plan. Kids’ routines, moods, and needs ...
Seattle Times

Boeing warned 15 years ago about part problem at center of UPS crash

More than a decade before a deadly crash last year, Boeing warned MD-11 operators that a part securing the cargo plane’s engines to their wings had failed four times, while insisting it did not pose a ...
The Conversation

South Florida’s Brightline has highlighted an old problem – every year for the past decade, 900 pedestrians were killed by trains

I was a volunteer member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine oversight committee as the 2022 "Strategies for Deterring Trespassing on Rail Transit and Commuter Rail Rights ...
Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Is 2026 a leap year? Will leaplings celebrate a birthday this year?

Is 2026 a leap year? There's something about the randomness of throwing an extra day into a month once every few years that grabs our attention and curiosity. Feb. 29 has all sorts of myths and trivia ...
eWeek

GPT-5.2 Just Solved a 30-Year Math Problem

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...
The New York Times

How Patriots QB Drake Maye took a Year 2 leap, became an MVP candidate: It ‘was Brady-like’

Quarterback Drake Maye has taken a massive step forward in his second season and led the Patriots back to the playoffs. Patrick Smith / Getty Images Drake Maye was in the shotgun, both hands in the ...
Forbes

Your New Year's Resolution Is Solving The Wrong Problem

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. The most popular New Year's resolution misses the point. Real resilience comes from groups, ...
Chicago Sun-Times

After problem-free 'New Year’s Rockin' Eve,' Mayor Johnson says he opposes revised curfew measure

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